Awaiting Your Shadow

from Letters on Extinction's Piece by Speech Act

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Sinking into depravity,
Gravity and stillness leap away from me
And bury themselves into the sea
Afraid of fear itself, privation will set them free.

You’re too scared to jump!
The fire burning mother will catch up!
I’m here to show you fear in a planet of dust.
Discover you’re all turning to rust.

All sing the hopelessness you’ve kept inside.
All kill the despair and forge a rising tide.
No one comes back from the brink
Without a scar prompting them to think.

Falling into a wasteland, where even I can’t save you,
Drowning in the plastic sea rotting with my mother’s bone
Take your leap as I signal the queue
Outside of fear itself, now we reap what they have sown

No one comes back from the sky without a scar that makes them die.
Consume the wildfires as the desert reclaims its place
Feast on the words of the innocent
dying as you laugh

Slam down the disappearing islands.
Drink up what you have brewed,
the trembling earth that stews
The turbulent winds unlike how they flew

Dear mother, can you hear me? I don’t know if they will stop.
I’m sorry to be your shadow and not hold you up.

Jump! Jump! I want to see you crash below.
Jump! Jump! You who killed my home.
Jump! Jump! Stop destroying mom
Jump! Jump! The one place we have known.

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from Letters on Extinction's Piece, released August 13, 2021

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Speech Act Raleigh, North Carolina

Mad tunes from sad goons. Post-Metal.

travis//bass + vocals
evan//drums
colten//guitar

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